Two men are facing fines of 63 million Kenya Shillings ($620,000) in total for illegal possession of ivory after the Kenyan government announced a 21-day amnesty for the surrender of any wildlife trophies.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday called for a national debate over an amnesty law approved by the Congress that gives amnesty to activists who the opposition considers as political prisoners.

Brazil's Judge Sergio Moro, who is in charge of corruption investigation within Petrobras, said Wednesday that he had been wrong in releasing the clip of a phone conversation between President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.